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On Nov 22, 2011, at 4:28 PM, "Andrus, Brian Contractor" <bdandrus at nps.edu> wrote:
> They do work, but they do not do what I need.
>> See when someone submits >100000 array jobs, it fills up the job list that is used to schedule the jobs.
>> That is MAXJOB tells how many jobs to work with within moab to decide priority and who to run. So if MAXJOB is set to 50000, and someone submits an array of 100000, then 1/2 of their jobs get pulled in and the rest are ignored (for now) by moab.
> Now along comes supersensitive.user who submits his interactive job, which will sit for way too long because moab isn't even going to schedule it. In fact, moab is ignoring it.
>> I could set MAXJOB to 500000, but that still doesn't prevent a user from submitting too many jobs such that the list that is looked at does not over-fill.
>> Is there a setting were if someone were to submit >X jobs (array or otherwise), torque/moab will not even allow it in?
>
Yes
The torque parameters Lloyd mentioned and I confirmed
>> Brian Andrus
> ITACS/Research Computing
> Naval Postgraduate School
> Monterey, California
> voice: 831-656-6238
>>>> -----Original Message-----
> From: torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org [mailto:torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org] On Behalf Of glen.beane at gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:23 PM
> To: Torque Users Mailing List
> Cc: torqueusers at supercluster.org> Subject: Re: [torqueusers] Limit max jobs submitted
>>>> On Nov 22, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Lloyd Brown <lloyd_brown at byu.edu> wrote:
>>> You could try one of the per-queue limits
>> (http://www.adaptivecomputing.com/resources/docs/torque/2-5-9/4.1queueconfig.php).
>> In particular:
>>>> - max_queuable
>> - max_running
>> - max_user_queuable
>> - max_user_run
>>>> As of TORQUE 2.5 these should work correctly with job arrays
>>>>>>> Lloyd Brown
>> Systems Administrator
>> Fulton Supercomputing Lab
>> Brigham Young University
>>http://marylou.byu.edu>>>> On 11/22/2011 02:15 PM, Andrus, Brian Contractor wrote:
>>> All,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ok, using torque/moab latest versions.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Have someone submitting array jobs with t>100000
>>>>>> This causes much grief.
>>>>>>>>>>>> How to I limit a user from having X number of total jobs in the queue
>>> (to include each individual array element)?
>>>>>>>>>>>> I see MAXJOBS, but that doesn’t do it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Brian Andrus
>>>>>> ITACS/Research Computing
>>>>>> Naval Postgraduate School
>>>>>> Monterey, California
>>>>>> voice: 831-656-6238
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